Church

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the E side of the S-N valley of the Dawn River with the river c. 200m to the W. The parish church of Kilmeadan, described as roofless in 1615 (Power 1913, 116) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims. c. 75m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by masonry walls. The present C of I church is built on the site of an older church, part of which survived until c. 1850 (Atkins 1895, 35-6), but it is not now visible at ground level. Archaeological testing (99E0164) c. 150m to the W failed to produce any related material (Moore, 2000). (Power 1895b, 170-1)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 24th May, 2011.

References

Moore, M. 2000 Kilmeadan: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 294, No. 848. Bray. Wordwell.

Atkins, R. 1895 Old Waterford, its history and antiquities. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 1, 20-38.

Power, Rev. P. 1895 The ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 1, 133-41, 162-72, 247-53.

Power, Rev. P. 1913 Material condition of the churches of Waterford. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 16, 114-23.